There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.

William Shakespeare

Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I'm visiting.

Harry Connick, Jr.

Oh, it is sure as it is sad That any lad is every lad, And what's a girl, to dare implore Her dear be hers forevermore? Though he be tried and he be bold, And swearing death should he be cold, He'll run the path the others went.... But you, my sweet, are different.

Dorothy Parker, from Incurable

The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.

Robert F. Kennedy

Time and space were, from Death's point of view, merely things that he'd heard described. When it came to Death, they ticked the box marked Not Applicable. It might help to think of the universe as a rubber sheet, or perhaps not.

Terry Pratchett

In no man's land, alien is the queen.

Toba Beta

The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.

Adlai Stevenson

Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.

Lenny Bruce

It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such. But for the most part, it's better than seeing sacred music relegated to the scrap heap.

Richard Morris

The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.

Jack LaLanne

An Idea is nothing but Information, It won't do us any harm until we accept it as perception of truth in our mind, which in time will potentially evolve and construct major events in history.

Djayawarman Alamprabu

Beauty is the highest of all these occult influences, the quality of appearances that thru' the sense wakeneth spiritual emotion in the mind of man.

Robert Bridges